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Table 3 Nurses’ sociodemographic characteristics, computer literacy skills, MI training and recruitment strategies

From: Virtual patient simulation to improve nurses’ relational skills in a continuing education context: a convergent mixed methods study

Characteristics

Completers (n = 27)

Non-completers (n = 22)

p valuea

Focus group

(n = 5)

Age group, n (%)

  

0.89

 

 25–34

7 (25.93)

5 (22.73)

 

1 (20.00)

 35–44

8 (29.63)

7 (31.81)

 

0 (0.00)

 45–54

8 (29.63)

5 (22.73)

 

4 (80.00)

 55 and over

4 (14.81)

5 (22.73)

 

0 (0.00)

Gender, female, n (%)

22 (81.48)

18 (8.82)

0.74

3 (60.00)

Education levels, n (%)

  

0.58

 

 Associate’s degree

3 (11.11)

5 (22.73)

 

0 (0.00)

 Certificate/ Bachelor’s degree

19 (70.37)

13 (59.09)

 

3 (60.00)

 Specialized graduate diploma/Master’s degree/PhD

5 (18.52)

4 (18.18)

 

2 (40.00)

Employment, n (%)

  

0.06

 

 Full time

19 (70.37)

20b (90.91)

 

5 (100.00)

 Part time

8 (29.63)

1(4.55)

 

0 (0.00)

Title, nc (%)

  

0.56

 

 Nurse-clinician

14 (48.28)

8 (32.00)

 

2 (33.32)

 Nurse

4 (13.79)

7 (28.00)

 

0 (0)

 Research nurse

4 (13.79)

2 (8.00)

 

0 (0)

 Assistant head nurse/head nurse

2 (6.90)

4 (16.00)

 

1 (16.67)

 Professor

1 (3.45)

2 (8.00)

 

1 (16.67)

 Researcher

1 (3.45)

0 (0.00)

 

1 (16.67)

 Otherd

3 (10.34)

2 (8.00)

 

1 (16.67)

Years of practice as nurse, mean (range)

18.37 (1–42)

18.59 (3–37)

 

23(8–32)

Quebec area, n (%)

  

0.77

 

 Montreal

14 (51.85)

13 (59.09)

 

4 (80.00)

 Outside Montreal

13 (48.15)

9 (40.91)

 

1 (20.00)

Experience as HIV nurse, n (%)

  

1.00

 

 No

9 (33.33)

8 (36.36)

 

2 (40.00)

 Yes

18 (66.67)

14 (63.64)

 

3 (60.00)

Years of practice as HIV nurse

Mean (range)

9.87e (0.17f − 23)

6.92g

(1–19)

 

13.5 h

(4–23)

Previous MI training, n (%)

  

0.75

 

 I don’t know

0 (0.00)

1 (4.55)

 

0 (0.00)

 No, I haven’t received training

17 (62.97)

12 (54.55)

 

1 (20.00)

 No, I haven’t received training, but I have done self-training (autodidact)

2 (7.40)

3 (13.63)

 

1 (20.00)

 Yes

8 (29.63)

6 (27.27)

 

3 (60.00)

Previous experience with VP simulation, n (%)

  

0.72

 

 No

26 (96.30)

20 (90.90)

 

5 (100.00)

 Yes

1 (3.70)

1 (4.55)

 

0 (0.00)

 Don’t know

0 (0.00)

1 (4.55)

 

0 (0.00)

Confidence in using technology, n (%)

  

0.82

 

 I do not at all feel confident in my skills

0 (0.00)

0 (0)

 

(0.00)

 I feel somewhat confident in my skills

2 (7.41)

1 (4.55)

 

(0.00)

 I feel confident in my skills

13 (48.15)

13 (59.09)

 

(0.00)

 I very feel confident in my skills

12 (44.44)

8 (36.36)

 

5 (100.00)

Participation in this web-based research is stressful, n (%)

  

0.60

 

 Strongly disagree

15 (55.56)

10 (45.45)

 

4 (80.00)

 Disagree

11 (40.74)

11 (50.00)

 

1 (20.00)

 Agree

1 (3.70)

0 (0.00)

 

0 (0.00)

 Strongly agree

0 (0.00)

1 (4.55)

 

0 (0.00)

Recruitment strategies, n (%)

  

0.80

 

 In person i

16 (59.26)

11 (50.00)

 

5 (100.00)

 HIV mentoring program

6 (22.22)

5 (22.73)

 

0 (0.00)

 Quebec order of nurses

5 (26.32)

6 (27.27)

 

0 (0.00)

  1. a The p value was calculated with Fisher’s exact test
  2. b One person indicated “retired”. We considered it as a missing value in the Fisher’s exact test calculation
  3. c The n per category of participants is calculated by the total numbers of responses instead of the sample size, because some participants indicated more than one title. Completers indicated 29 responses, the non-completers, 25, and the participants of the focus group indicated 6 responses
  4. d Pharmaceutical representative, senior advisor/specialized clinical analyst, manager, nurse practitioner
  5. e 4 missing values
  6. f 0.17 year: 2 months
  7. g 3 missing values
  8. h 1 missing value
  9. i Nurses heard about the project through student-researcher or by coworkers